Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
RICKRACK
rickrack, ricrac
(noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
rickrack (countable and uncountable, plural rickracks)
A zigzag trim sewn to clothes for decoration.
Source: Wiktionary
Rick"rack`, n.
Definition: A kind of openwork edging made of serpentine braid.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FISSILE
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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